I am not really sure what type of question is this. The question is below. Thank you. :confused:

A hollow hemispherical bowl of radius 4cm has a smaller solid spherical marble of radius 1cm at the bottom. If the bowl is filled with water to a depth of 1.5cm, find the volume of water in the bowl.

Jan 16th 2006, 08:39 AM

dud

Calculate the volume of a hemispherical object with a radius of 1.5cm - the volume of the ball which is submerged in the water?

Jan 16th 2006, 04:06 PM

ThePerfectHacker

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Originally Posted by poppy_wolf

I am not really sure what type of question is this. The question is below. Thank you. :confused:

A hollow hemispherical bowl of radius 4cm has a smaller solid spherical marble of radius 1cm at the bottom. If the bowl is filled with water to a depth of 1.5cm, find the volume of water in the bowl.

I would solve this problem with Calculus. The most important step is to know that given a hemisphere filled with water to depth of having radius then its volume is . Then from that your subtract the volume of the marble inside which in this case has volume

Jan 17th 2006, 09:03 AM

poppy_wolf

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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker

I would solve this problem with Calculus. The most important step is to know that given a hemisphere filled with water to depth of having radius then its volume is . Then from that your subtract the volume of the marble inside which in this case has volume

Will the solution be like this..

Volume of bowl = 2/3 (4^3) - (1.5)(4^2) + 1/3 (1.5^3)
= 17 13/24

volume of water = 17 13/24 -

= 13.35287

Jan 17th 2006, 03:13 PM

ThePerfectHacker

Did you forget to multiply by in the first one?

Jan 18th 2006, 12:42 PM

earboth

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Hello,

to make sure that I got your question I've attached a sketch of the situation as I understand it.

The marble has a diametre of 2 cm, that means it will stuck out of the water if there is only a depth of 1.5 cm.
Therefore you have to calculate two parts of spheres:

The difference of both volumes is the volume of water you're looking for.

Bye

Jan 18th 2006, 02:34 PM

ThePerfectHacker

I see what you are saying earboth. I did not take into account the fact that the sphere stuck out of the water!

This is definetly a Calculus problem for volume. It is solved with the formula I posted here before.